Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times; Danny Feld/CBS Steve Jobs in 1984 and Ashton Kutcher on “Two and a Half Men.”In his best-known roles, Ashton Kutcher has played a young man who came of age in the 1970s and a self-made technology gazillionaire, so why shouldn’t his latest gig combine them both? Mr. Kutcher, the sitcom star of “That ’70s Show” and “Two and a Half Men,” is set to portray Steve Jobs in an independent film about that Apple co-founder, Variety reported. The film, called “Jobs,” is to be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) and written by Matt Whiteley, and is expected to chronicle Jobs’s life from his relatively wayward youth to his involvement in the creation of Apple. Variety said the film is expected to start production in May while Mr. Kutcher is on a hiatus from “Two and a Half Men,” on which he plays Walden Schmidt, a wealthy Internet entrepreneur.
This “Jobs” film is unrelated to a film adaptation of Walter Isaacon’s best-selling biography “Steve Jobs” that Sony Pictures Entertainment is preparing. (As is often the case with Apple, there’s always a new product or upgrade to contend with every few months.)
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